Larry Dignan

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Larry Dignan is the former Editor in Chief of ZDNET. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNET. Prior to that, he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news e…ditor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.

Larry Dignan has nothing to disclose. He does not hold investments in the technology companies he covers.

Latest from Larry Dignan

Skype: Ad revenue provides third revenue stream

Skype is rolling out advertising in its Windows client in a move that will give it a third revenue stream to go with per minute call rates and business usage.

March 7, 2011 by Larry Dignan in Social Media

Lithium and Klout: Does it make sense?

What does Klout bring to the social enterprise software table? That's a good question that only Lithium seems to know.

February 11, 2014 by Larry Dignan in Social Media

Gen Y and IT management: It's not all that complicated

Forrester finds that Generation Y has a relatively favorable opinion of business tech. What does that mean for the enterprise 2.0 barbarians at the gate?

April 4, 2011 by Larry Dignan in Social Media

Enterprise software's interface risk: Going hogwild mimicking Facebook

As I approach my 1 millionth briefing about how all businesses will be social and how enterprise apps are like Facebook, I can't help but wonder what happens if we all get sick of Mark Zuckerberg's creation at once.

April 6, 2011 by Larry Dignan in Social Media

Salesforce buys Radian6 for $326 million, enters social media monitoring

Salesforce.com acquired Radian6, a social media monitoring service, for $326 million in cash and stock.

March 29, 2011 by Larry Dignan in Social Media

Facebook's monetization train rolls along with strong Q3

Facebook's metrics were solid across the board. Operating margins in the third quarter were 37 percent, up from 20 percent a year ago.

October 30, 2013 by Larry Dignan in Social Media

Mobile first UX: Facebook's desktop News Feed mimics mobile

With Facebook unifying its desktop and mobile experiences at the expense of design pyrotechnics it's possible that other companies will follow.

March 6, 2014 by Larry Dignan in Social Media

Five questions: Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby talks data centers, apps, collaboration

Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby will launch the company's latest data center in Texas. We caught up with Jacoby to talk about data centers, collaboration and managing applications.

April 14, 2011 by Larry Dignan in Social Media

Google CEO Page on user interface, IT: What can we learn?

Larry Page outlined his view of the search giant's products as well as his view of IT.

April 12, 2012 by Larry Dignan in Social Media

Osama Bin Laden killed: Twitter's moment?!? Um no.

As reports that the U.S. took out Osama bin Laden spread, Twitter once again revealed itself as a great tool. But bin Laden's death was a far bigger moment than Twitter's tale.

May 1, 2011 by Larry Dignan in Social Media

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